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WEDDINGS; Patricia Minniece, George Benington

Patricia Minniece was married yesterday to George Arthur Benington at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church in Houston. The Rev. Randall W. Trego performed the ceremony.

Mrs. Benington, 34, is a commodity trader in New York with the MG Metal and Commodity Corporation, the principal American subsidiary of Metallgesellschaft, the German metals producer and trader. She graduated from Mount Vernon College. She is a daughter of Marian Fowlkes Minniece and John G. Minniece 3d, both of Houston, where the bride's father is a lawyer. She is a granddaughter of the late James M. H. Fowlkes, a rancher whose Big Bend Ranch in West Texas became part of Big Bend State Park.

Mr. Benington, 32, is the northeastern regional sales manager for the Westvaco Corporation, a paper and pulp company in New York. He graduated from Lake Forest College. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Benington. His father was an investment banker in the New York office of Alex. Brown & Sons.